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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (168693)	8/7/2001 10:51:01 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

How a person treats another has nothing to do with right or left, liberal versus conservative. It has to do with the decency of a single individual (and the individual members of a group). To assume otherwise IMHO shows prejudice and is closed minded. The Cultural Revolution IMHO was NOT a conservative movement, NOT in China, the United States (I recall, that the little red book was popular in the States too), Europe, or anywhere else. Simply put, Communist or others that use violence to obtain power, will employ it to stay in power.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (168693)	8/7/2001 11:00:18 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Are you calling for a new cultural revolution?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (168693)	8/8/2001 2:06:01 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

But Mao said the conservatives were in China's institutions (where else would they be?) and had to be dislodged so that the original proletarian revolution could once more progress. The sclerotic old men were dragged out in the streets and kicked, spat upon, and sentenced to hard labor among the peasants. If this isn't revolution, what is it? And isn't revolution against The Establishment a left wing thing?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (168693)	8/8/2001 4:36:07 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Actually, the idea was not to "preserve the status quo and prevent progressive change", but to root out the last remnants of bourgeois thinking among the populace, and especially the intelligentsia and party. That is why it was called the Cultural Revolution. It was led by student cadres on the premise that they had grown up under socialism, and thus were more reliable ideologically. It entailed things like sending writers and party officials to the countryside to work as peasants in an attempt to give them the peoples' perspective.......